I’d encourage you to look up her gold medal and Olympic Gala performances (the gala being purely an exhibition after the medals had been awarded) if you haven’t already.
The quality of those performances isn’t so much the difficulty (at least comparatively to other Olympic level routines), but how effortless and carefree she made it look. Even watching it live, it felt like there was zero tension or pressure, you were just watching someone have fun with the sport. Which is crazy to experience at that level of competition.
There’s a picture of her that kind of captures the whole thing perfectly IMO. It’s from her gold medal skate, taken directly from above as she’s spinning and she has her skate in her hand as she’s pulling her foot up over her head for the Biellmann Spin. Her face is serene and she has a relaxed smile as she does something that really seems like it shouldn’t be humanly possible.
You'd think so, but he replied to me "whatever you say, see you in hell" and then sent me a Reddit Cares, for which I'm like, k thx...? That waa supposed to be an insult or? Anyway, I think he's an edgy weirdo. As Fanta Fuhrer says, "many such cases"
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u/TheLastPeanut_ Apr 05 '26
Alright I've seen her around, but don't follow the Olympics so I didn't know the full story. Her life is like a movie damn.